Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The National debt, NTMA, Post Office savings funds, State Claims Agency, Dormant Accounts Fund, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and the National Pensions Reserve Fund are all in the book, which is the subject of today's meeting. They all have a clear audit opinion and we will be able to discuss them at length with our witnesses when they arrive today.

Regarding the work programme, we need to set up some meetings to be ready for when we come back and the secretariat must contact the organisations in advance. I propose that in our first meeting back, which is in the week of 22 September - the Dáil resumes the following week - we deal with the special report already produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the management and service payment in public sector bodies.

I suggest we deal with that matter on the first day. On 29 September and at the subsequent meeting we will have representatives of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, before the committee to deal with what we hope will be the report on Project Eagle. We will start immediately with those items. I am conscious that the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General will be coming out at the time and we will wish to deal with some of these items. I am also asking members to include items in the work programme. The Comptroller and Auditor General has indicated that he will send a report on Project Eagle to the Minister shortly and we should deal with it immediately on our return and before the end of September. It will not be a question of having one or two meetings as we have an amount of work to do. NAMA is the biggest organisation in the State and we must give it considerable time.